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The article shows how racialism separates and excludes, it does not bring freedom despite what its proponents say, and, more dangerously, models a way of thinking about the world. A brief history of racism is also given. The racialist vision perverts the very idea of integration, and its demands terrorize the media and those involved in intellectual, social and political life. The focus is on the racialization of social relations, which has become the unsurpassable horizon of democratic progress in Western civilization. The theory of the "woke" left is seen as the starting point from which to build an "inclusive" society. The notion of the people is proposed as the foundation of a political community, ensuring its identity, but allowing it to welcome new members. We need to be more tolerant of each other, and perhaps in this way we can build a better world.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse Japanese indirect communication culture focusing on the importance of context. The paper will use the theory of pragmatics to understand differences between direct and indirect communication cultures.Issues discussed will include speech acts, politeness theory and face-saving acts.Verbal and non-verbal language aspects will also be taken into account. The analysis will also take into account historical aspects leading to this type of communication in Japanese culture, and will raise awareness regarding communication related to business culture and consequences of misunderstandings at this level if one of the businessmen is part of a direct communication culture.
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Culture is a particular construction, with its own values and idiosyncrasies. Culture-bound terms carry these idiosyncrasies, which make such terms difficult to translate. Transferring the original meaning into the target language often proves a challenge, especially when the translator is little aware of the peculiarities of the source culture. Hence, developing cultural awareness is essential for developing linguistic awareness. Both types of awareness contribute to extending linguistic hospitality to a source-language term, making it as transparent as possible in the target language.
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Crises, as the one provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, are events created by the society and mediatized through speech. These are unexpected moments which destabilize social norms. The importance of political speech is essential during crisis times, as it represents the only available tool to control the masses. During the state of emergency in Romania, in 2020, the political leaders realized that only through speech they can convince the entire society to follow the rules imposed by WHO to limit the spread of what was then called ` the invisible enemy`: the coronavirus. In this paper, I will analyse the persuasion strategies in the Romanian president’s speeches, between March 16th and May 15th 2020. I will show that the speeches of president Iohannis were mostly marked by arguments based on logos, at the beginning of the state of emergency period, followed quickly by speeches based on emotion (pathos), using mechanisms such as: the call on people’s collective memory, the exploitation of people’s fears through exaggerated cause-effect relations, the use of words belonging to the catastrophe language, false analogy, the claim of an equal position to Romanian citizens or the use of empathy.
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Lately, student’s motivation in the classroom has been marked as a prominent topic within the field of linguistics, due to its impact on the overall performance of the learner. The motivational framework proposed by Dörnyei (1994) represents one of the main models that included this affective learning factor and stands as foundation of the present paper. According to him, there are three dimensions of motivation: the social one that encompasses integrative and instrumental motivation, the personal one that includes the need for achievement and self-confidence and the educational one that integrates the teacher-specific and the course-specific motivation. Hence, since motivation is considered an important factor in learning a foreign language, the present paper intends to observe these dimensions in Romanian university students who are learning Spanish gender-wise and to construe relevant teaching implications. Overall, the study corroborates previous research, which proved that female students show higher motivation levels than males.
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The report examines methods, models and modeling approaches used in improving communications and information systems management.
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The report describes the application areas of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). It also addresses some of them and the advantages of these unmanned systems.
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The report reveals the importance of military roads in securing the defence operations. The organization of military road works is presented. The main operational, technical and tactical requirements for military roads in the area of defence operation are revealed. The factors that influence on the stability of the objects of the road network into the defence operation zone are examined.
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The report proposes a methodology based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST SP 800-53 framework. The framework is called the NIST Cyber Security Framework for Critical Infrastructure (CSF) and is applied to measure an organization’s critical infrastructure. The framework is the basis for building an approach for defining information security levels, developing a toolkit and a report for an organization’s security assessment. Standard guidelines and practices are given for taking measures to mitigate threats using the information and recommendations of good practices and international standards.
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In this paper, the principle of subsidiarity – that agency and choice should be delegated to the local level – is introduced. In education, it is proposed that: – far greater responsibility should be delegated to School Leadership Teams; and that; – successful Leadership in education requires a balance of principle (the moral basis of the school), purpose (the core business of the school) and people (social relationships in the school). A clear distinction is then drawn between leadership (complexity), management (clarity) and administration (consistency). This is followed by a discussion on distributed leadership, the idea that the leadership role is not confined to the Senior Leadership Team; but should, for example, involve subject leaders. Finally, the idea of Governance is introduced: a process whereby a legally constituted team of local partners support and challenge the School Leadership Team; helping them to fulfil their responsibility for the leadership and management of the school.
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“Sport is a growing social and economic phenomenon with a significant contribution to the European Union's (EU) strategic objectives of solidarity and well-being.” This is stated in the White Paper on Sport, created by the European Commission in 2007. The year coincides with Bulgaria's accession as a member state of the Union, which marks a new stage for our country in the management of policies for the development of physical education, sport for excellence, social responsibility and public health, education, social inclusion, etc. In this period, as a result of significant changes in the development of institutions in the field of sport in Bulgaria, as well as changes brought about by external and internal factors, the system of physical education has fallen into a crisis, from which in the following years began to gradually emerge. The practice of sport among children, adolescents and adults is becoming increasingly restricted. Socially disadvantaged people rarely engage in physical activities, the performance of elite athletes in international events brings unsatisfactory results. All this comes as a regularity from the political, economic and social changes in society. This publication traces the institutionalization in the field of sport, which began as early as 1945, when the Department of Physical Culture and Sport was established under the Ministry of Public Health. It traces the development of sport institutions in Bulgaria over the years. It focuses on the period 2012 – 2023, the policy pursued and the strategic documents adopted in the field. Through a comparative analysis of the National Strategy for the Development of Physical Education and Sport in the Republic of Bulgaria 2012 – 2022 and the National Strategy for the Development of Physical Activity, Physical Education, Sport and Sports and Tourism 2023 – 2034, which has been publicly discussed, as well as accompanying documents, the main priorities, problems, objectives and their implementation are analysed.
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This report examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the structure of the four main morning blocks in Bulgaria – “The Day Begins” on BNT, “Hello, Bulgaria” on Nova Television, “This Morning” on BTV and “Bulgaria Morning” on Bulgaria ON AIR. The purpose of the report is to track how the content and structure of the four morning television blocks changes due to the impact of the pandemic over a period of two years (from 2020 to 2023). When choosing the methodology for conducting the research, the nature of the set goal is taken into account, adhering to the principles of high ethics and efficiency of quantitative and qualitative indicators and criteria. The results highlight the different methods used to change the structure and content of morning TV blocks in the covid period. In conclusion, it is clear that each of the television stations has taken different ways to deal with the covid crisis without depriving the audience of information on all current topics in our country and around the world. Despite the imposed change of operation, all four morning television blocks retain their structure of topics and guests, all relying on a rotating change of presenters and online conversations via video link.
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The general commercialization of all spiritual fields in modern society removes them from the sphere of the sacred and turns them into a commodity. Art loses autonomy and identity, becomes indistinguishable from non-art, and all its evaluations outside the sphere of the market are relativized and illegitimate due to the lack of aesthetic norms. The article examines the market and social mechanisms that replace aesthetic criteria in the evaluation of contemporary collectible art.
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Inspired by the 32-years long Belene trial, the article investigates the impact of deprivation from the right to justice on reaching transitional justice in aftermaths of crimes against humanity. Through bottom-up victims-centered perspective the article digs into the Belene victims’ oral history narratives to find out the impact of this deprivation on the societal contract, victims’ trauma, justice perception of the society and the rule of law. Based on textual analysis of open-ended interviews and narratives of the Belene victims, the article highlights the adverse consequences of neglecting the victims’ right to fair trial and transitional justice and perpetuating impunity, not only impeding justice and healing but perpetuating victimization and corroding societal trust. The sustained denial of victims' rights to a fair trial and access to justice exacerbates historical wounds, erodes the foundations of the justice and collective perception of fairness in the whole society. Beyond legal implications, the deprivation from right to justice affects individuals' psychological and social well-being and overall societal peace. The article emphasizes that transitional justice is a moral imperative, enabling the rebuilding of a peaceful and democratic society on principles of accountability and empathy, especially in the complex and sensitive aftermath of ethnic-based crimes against humanity.
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Under the effects of rapid changes in current social environment and family, family structure gradually changes from past extended family and stem family to nuclear family for matching modern social environment. Preschool children’s learning is affected by school education as well as family education. When different family socioeconomic status would affect children’s cognitive ability to form the stratification of cognitive ability development, such a phenomenon is growing apart from the philosophy of equality of educational opportunity. Aiming at parents of children in preschool education units in china, as the research objects, total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and 237 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 66%. The research results are summarized as below. 1. Children with higher family socioeconomic status present better cognitive ability, explaining the actual effect of family socioeconomic status on current children’s cognitive ability to form educational stratification as well as unequal opportunity for preschool education. 2. The higher family socioeconomic status shows the richer family educational resources. It is therefore inferred that children with higher family socioeconomic status reveal better cognitive ability, possibly because of richer family educational resources allowing children receiving more cultural, social, or financial capital stimulation to enhance more cognitive ability. According to the result to proposed suggestions, it is expected to enhance domestic ideal of equality of preschool educational opportunity, allow domestic education parallel to various advanced countries, and achieve the responsibility for cultivating quality citizen in the future.
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It is already known that world economy is continuously moving, generated and supported by the changes produced rapidly in all fields of activity. Thus, management practices and strategies should comply with the continuously changing requirements of the main actors and aspects such as motivation of employees, more and more diverse communicative situations and engagement of the civil society should be considered. In this study we will try to determine the way in which today’s Romanian approach of organizational management has been modelled by geographical positioning of the country and by the influences of the Communist regime. At the same time, we will enumerate the most important management styles practiced in Romania during the present times.
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After Nigeria became independent in 1960, the divisions engendered by the long history of colonialism as well as the artificiality of borders imposed by the British led to a three-year civil war following the Igbo-led military coup in 1966. In her novel Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie depicts the events leading to the Biafran war and the horrors of the "war of starvation" through a polyphony of voices from different social backgrounds as well as through a metatext, a book called The World Was Silent When We Died, excerpts from which are inserted at the end of certain chapters as a comment on colonial and postcolonial politics. Thus, the novel turns into a large-scale historiographic metafiction that documents the transition from the early postcolonial state to what philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe called “necropolitical” systems of domination.
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Based on a decade-long fieldwork in the volatile and convoluted area of mass-media in Japan, this paper draws on empirical data and ethnographic research combined in hermeneutic interpretation and contributes with fresh insights into the impact Japanese popular culture has been providing on Western products of similar caliber. In this case, the animation movies Frozen (2013) and Baymax (2014), both released by Walt Disney Productions and hugely popular in Japan, are carefully scrutinized in their cross-cultural significance, on the background of an increasing awareness on the identity crisis faced by the concepts of “femininity” and “masculinity” nowadays and inspite of repeated waves of feminism, public outrage and legislative progress. By proposing the concept of “empowered, enlightened human being”, the current paper seeks to foster a more profound alternative to the ongoing debate, while taking into account the fundamental human needs to belong and to be free – an apparent contradiction, though nevertheless, an essential precondition on the path to becoming a responsible, self-confident citizen in late modernity.
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As a very dynamic social phenomenon, sport plays a significant role in everyday life. This applies especially to football, as the most influential sport globally. Authors Dejan Milenković and Vesna Milenković decided to look at this phenomenon from several angles and systematize it through the book "Football and Society". After a historical overview, the authors look at football through its relations with politics, economics and the media, with special reference to the changes that have occurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, the book contains chapters about women's football, as well as about football and violence (sections about hooliganism, terrorism, hate speech and racism). In the end, the authors conclude that football, like society, has repeatedly found itself at a historical turning point and that it is still happening today. However, they emphasize that football always manages to overcome all challenges and increase its popularity and social influence.
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